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Old 11-07-2012, 06:31 PM
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Extreme partisans such as yourself are delusional to believe this nonsense. 6 billion dollars was just spent to more or less divide the country further and more decisively.
I'm not an "extreme partisan" simply because I don't embrace the John Birch Society wing of the former GOP.

Like many have described, Obama fits very nicely with moderate Republicans. Why I voted for him. Why Colin Powell endorsed him. Why most major newspapers in the country endorsed him.

This country isn't divided - from my point of view, it's been brought more together. The wingnut extremists were thrown out of office. When you have Fox News calling Karl Rove extreme, there's plenty of hope. If they can lay off the crazy talk, and people like Donald Trump stop calling for revolution because they lost an election, the rest of us can continue to work. There were historic accomplishments Obama's first term, and it will continue.

The United States is unique as even our Democrats are considered rather conservative in the other first world countries. Like me being called "extreme". It's absurd.
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Old 11-07-2012, 06:50 PM
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Final entrants: most accurate electoral count of winner - without going over - wins this.

328 Romney - Old Dog
311 Romney - joeydb
302 Obama - jms62
292 Obama - Antitrust
291 Obama - hi im god
288 Obama - Riot
287 Obama - Ocala Mike
281 Obama - dalakhani
278 Romney - Rupert Pumpkin
277 Obama - Calzone Lord
274 Romney - Dylbert
273 Romney - Rudeboyelvis
269 tie to Romney - clipclop

And the winner of the National Presidential Election Contest thread is ....

... Old Dog !


Final count was 332 Obama landslide to 206 Romney.

Old Dog - there is no prize, but our humble admiration. Congratulations on your political acumen.

Although you got the wrong party.

But still - well done
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Old 11-07-2012, 06:56 PM
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In the choice between Freedom and "Free Stuff", Free Stuff won.
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Old 11-07-2012, 07:01 PM
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In the choice between Freedom and "Free Stuff", Free Stuff won.
Please - stop with this ridiculous nonsense. There is no "free stuff". Name one.
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Old 11-07-2012, 07:03 PM
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Please - stop with this ridiculous nonsense. There is no "free stuff". Name one.
Do food stamps count?

Or would you prefer I said free money? Obamaphones? Obamabucks?

Don't play games. Obama has the loafer vote all locked up.
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Old 11-07-2012, 07:17 PM
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Do food stamps count?
You pay for that when you pay your taxes. Yes, we as a country give people in poverty money to buy food. Hardly "free stuff", more "survival and don't starve to death".

Do you know how broke you have to be to get food stamps, Joey? Look it up on the internet in your state.

Obama has made zero changes to the food stamp program. So why do you blame him?

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Or would you prefer I said free money? Obamaphones? Obamabucks?

Don't play games. Obama has the loafer vote all locked up.
And the minimal survival cell phone access for emergencies wasn't created by Obama, either. In fact, poor people could get minimal telephone service since I was about 10 years old. We all pay for that in our telephone taxes.

Yes, Obama has the "loafer" vote of those in abject poverty locked up, especially in the dismal make-believe imaginary world of the ObamaHaters where "47% of Americans will never take responsibility for their lives". Ronald Reagan lied and make up the 'welfare queen" racist ghetto dog-whistle, and some still believe that silliness.

Thankfully, the majority in this country proved yesterday that they do not.
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Joey's breakdown is more enertaining then Carl Rove's.
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Old 11-07-2012, 07:29 PM
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Joey's breakdown is more enertaining then Carl Rove's.
Wow - that was epic. I didn't see it first hand, had to go back and watch it. I heard about it when we were waiting for Romney to become an adult and concede for an hour. Twitter was busting up about it.

I had a non-political friend who casually turned on Fox last night, and caught it all live. He called today wanting to know who. the. hell. is. Karl. Rove?
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Old 11-07-2012, 07:12 PM
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Please - stop with this ridiculous nonsense. There is no "free stuff". Name one.

He's talking about this 'free stuff'.



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He's talking about this 'free stuff'.



Yeah, that's about right.
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Old 11-07-2012, 06:58 PM
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I'm not an "extreme partisan" simply because I don't embrace the John Birch Society wing of the former GOP.

Like many have described, Obama fits very nicely with moderate Republicans. Why I voted for him. Why Colin Powell endorsed him. Why most major newspapers in the country endorsed him.

This country isn't divided - from my point of view, it's been brought more together. The wingnut extremists were thrown out of office. When you have Fox News calling Karl Rove extreme, there's plenty of hope. If they can lay off the crazy talk, and people like Donald Trump stop calling for revolution because they lost an election, the rest of us can continue to work. There were historic accomplishments Obama's first term, and it will continue.

The United States is unique as even our Democrats are considered rather conservative in the other first world countries. Like me being called "extreme". It's absurd.
You cant make a single post without making some extreme remark about the GOP. You think that politicam parties and those that suport them can endure months of attacks on rach other and believe that we come out of it more together? You think that thi election proves something? it proves nothing except that far too many people see only what they want to see. Obama won the popular election by a little over 1%. That is an awful lot of people who were willing to ignore the attacks and scare tactics and still vote him out.
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Old 11-07-2012, 07:05 PM
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The problem with the GOP...heard it on the internet..

Too old, too white,too male.
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Old 11-07-2012, 07:06 PM
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You cant make a single post without making some extreme remark about the GOP.
When the subject is the extreme things the GOP is doing - and even you have to admit that preventing women from accessing birth control is extreme - the subject dictates the post.

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You think that politicam parties and those that suport them can endure months of attacks on rach other and believe that we come out of it more together?
Yes. The extremists, the "Muslim Kenyan Socialist Communist" Bachmann-West-Mourdock-Atkins folks lost. The liars, the Fox News liars, lost.

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You think that thi election proves something? it proves nothing except that far too many people see only what they want to see.
The election was a "landslide" according to all the Romney people that thought he'd be on top with over 330 electoral votes. It was Obama who got the "landslide", however. Exactly as the multiple rational poll watchers - and not the crazy right wing reality-deniers - predicted. Every swing state but one.

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Obama won the popular election by a little over 1%. That is an awful lot of people who were willing to ignore the attacks and scare tactics and still vote him out.
Popular vote still being counted, but this mornings total is

59,621,436 Obama
56,989,709 Romney

That's plenty significant in a Presidential election. Especially as on the evening news, Obama's win margin is now over 3 million votes and still rising.
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When the subject is the extreme things the GOP is doing - and even you have to admit that preventing women from accessing birth control is extreme - the subject dictates the post.



Yes. The extremists, the "Muslim Kenyan Socialist Communist" Bachmann-West-Mourdock-Atkins folks lost. The liars, the Fox News liars, lost.



The election was a "landslide" according to all the Romney people that thought he'd be on top with over 330 electoral votes. It was Obama who got the "landslide", however. Exactly as the multiple rational poll watchers - and not the crazy right wing reality-deniers - predicted. Every swing state but one.



Popular vote still being counted, but this mornings total is

59,621,436 Obama
56,989,709 Romney

That's plenty significant in a Presidential election. Especially as on the evening news, Obama's win margin is now over 3 million votes and still rising.
Not really significant at all.

Before subtracting out the dead people and multiple voters (which we don't have figures for due to those being illegal, unmeasured activities), Obama got 51.1% to Romney's 48.9%.
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